David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation . Disadvantages. In-house, brand-name guru. In-house functional specialists.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. billion.) So what’s left?

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. Kushim manages your deal flow and track portfolio performance.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

What I mean by that is startups nowadays that raise money have absolutely ludicrous metrics. So in other words, the bottom line is you’re not prepared right now in terms of the market, the product, the metrics anyway for VC, and it doesn’t sound like you’d be happy with VC. Does that make sense?

Technical Cofounder 220

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I’ll give the example of the acquisition of CardMunch by LinkedIn. Take two companies doing the same thing, having similar technology and I’ll bet that the company that’s located in the Valley will be 10x the size, or 10x the revenue, or whatever other success-metric you want to apply.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 124

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). Flips, on the other hand, thrive on trends: what better time for an entrepreneur to create a startup than when valuations are up, investments are quick, exits are plenty and deal flow is increase?

Lean 144

Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I’ll give the example of the acquisition of CardMunch by LinkedIn. Take two companies doing the same thing, having similar technology and I’ll bet that the company that’s located in the Valley will be 10x the size, or 10x the revenue, or whatever other success-metric you want to apply.

Silicon Valley 112

Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 112